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Every year, millions of eligible voters fall through the cracks of our antiquated voter registration system because they have moved sometime in the last year.

In November 2014, voters in Montana will face a very important choice: to repeal or to continue SDR. They should keep it.

Large disparities in turnout benefit the donor class.

How our work to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act has resulted in over 3 million new voter registration applications through public assistance agencies.

Are States Complying with the Motor Voter Requirements of the National Voter Registration Act?

Our current voter registration system, which is designed as a voter-initiated or “self-registration” system, creates barriers to registration that do not serve any significant purpose in a democracy. Automatic voter registration is the answer.

When someone from another country goes through the difficult process of becoming a naturalized American citizen, he or she should be entitled to full participation in our nation's democracy.

In this report, we review a number of election laws and policies in 10 states chosen because they are expected to have close elections.

Protecting The Freedom To Vote Against Wrongful Challenges And Intimidation

America needs an election process that is efficient, trustworthy, and welcoming. We need a renewed sense of citizenship and service, and a government that people can believe in.

Same Day Registration (SDR) allows eligible voters to register to vote and cast their ballots on the same day. Depending on the state, this one-stop process for registering and voting may be offered on Election Day, during the early voting period, or both.

If we do not close voter turnout gaps, our democracy is destined to become less and less representative in the coming decades.

This resource guide is intended to help advocates and local leaders make common-sense improvements to current voter removal practices and oppose bad bills that limit access to the ballot.

Introducing a framework rooted in racial equity designed to amplify new narratives around power.

The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter registration, a method more often used by Black and brown voters and other groups that have historically faced greater hurdles in voting.

In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter rolls, and share commonsense policy solutions to fix it.